The Biden administration on Friday released a state-by-state breakdown of people who could get assistance from the presidents embattled student-loan debt relief program, days after the Education Department said independent auditors had questioned the estimated cost of the effort.
Officials say 26 million people had applied or were automatically deemed eligible to have up to $20,000 of their federal student loans canceled before an appeals court imposed a nationwide injunction halting the relief plan. The department has approved 16 million applications, assuring borrowers that the administration will discharge the deb…
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